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HOUSING. Risking a veto, the House passed and sent to the White House a $1 billion housing bill, slimmed down from the $1.4 billion housing bill that the President vetoed last July, but still a lot fatter than he wanted. Ike sent Congress a message bluntly announcing that Housing Bill No. 2 had some "seriously objectionable" features. Some Capitol Hill Republicans predicted that Ike would veto the bill, even though it passed by more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto: 283 to 105 in the House, 71 to 24 in the Senate...
Sammy Davis, Jr. is a slick, quicksilver Sporting Life, and his renderings of "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" could not be topped. Pearl Bailey is on hand as Maria, and one only wishes that her part were fatter...
...first $4,200 of pay to 2¼% of the first $4,800 (up $25.50 to $120 a year for a worker who makes $4,800 a year or more). But when 1959's first social security checks go out in the mail, they will be a little fatter than they were in 1958, with the minimum up from $30 to $33, and the family maximum up from...
...were closer around the corner. On top of his 870,000-vote re-election plurality, Kennedy last week had the word of the Gallup poll that he would walk away from Vice President Richard Nixon if the two ran for the presidency right now-and by a much fatter majority than in any of three earlier trial heats run by Gallup. Results (discounting the undecided...
...having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line Pilots Association...